This book examines the contemporary fascination with Eastern spirituality and provides a cultural history of the representation of Asian religions in American mass media. Encounters with monks, gurus, bhikkhus, sages, sifus, healers, and masters from a wide variety of ethnic bac…
Saffron-robed monks and long-haired gurus have become familiar characters on the American popular culture scene. This book examines the contemporary fascination with Eastern spirituality and provides a cultural history of the representation of Asian religions in American mass me…
Between 1514 and 1663 the genre known as Heroides, coined by Ovid, was maintained almost entirely by modern Latin poets. This book considers the period, which has up to now remained almost unheeded in the history of the genre. It looks at the collections of epistles by relevant …
Tradition, transmission, and transformation from Second Temple literature through Judaism and Christianity in…: proceedings of the Thirteenth International Sympo…
by Merkaz Oryon le-Ḥeḳer Megilot Midbar Yehudah ve-ha-Sifrut ha-Ḳerovah Lahen, Jerusalem
fromStudies on the texts of the desert of Judah
Tradition, transmission, and transformation from Second Temple literature through Judaism and Christianity in…: proceedings of the Thirteenth International Sympo…
by Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature
fromStudies on the texts of the desert of Judah
Tradition, transmission, and transformation from Second Temple literature through Judaism and Christianity in…: proceedings of the Thirteenth International Sympo…
by Segal, Michael, Kister, Menahem, Newman, Hillel, Clements, Ruth, Merkaz Oryon le-Ḥeḳer Megilot Midbar Yehudah ve-ha-Sifrut ha-Ḳerovah Lahen, International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, Jerusalem)
fromStudies on the text of the desert of Judah
"Many types of tradition and interpretation found in later Jewish and Christian writings trace their origins to the Second Temple period, but their transmission and transformation followed different paths within the two religious communities. For example, while Christians often …
"Many types of tradition and interpretation found in later Jewish and Christian writings trace their origins to the Second Temple period, but their transmission and transformation followed different paths within the two religious communities. For example, while Christians often …
Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Germany's bourgeois elites became enthralled by the civilization of Renaissance Italy. As their own country entered a phase of critical socioeconomic changes, German historians and writers reinvented the Italian Renaissance as the onset…
